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adj. - Having achy sight organs.

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Usage examples (29)
  • "Of course, you'd pick up some sore-eyed kitten," complained Ann Hicks.
  • Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a...
  • An attendant was tenderly bandaging the blinking lids of a sore-eyed duck: another was feeding a blind crow, who, it must be confessed, looked here very much like some...
  • There were old men with long, white, patriarchal beards flowing over their dirty black gowns; there were younger men with peaked black caps and long black beards; and there...
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